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My grandma made these stuffed mushrooms all the time, but I never wanted to try one until I smelled them cooking. The smell of these will make your mouth water… especially the stuffing. You will want to eat all of the stuffing before they even make their way into the little mushroom caps. I’m getting hungry typing this, so I’ll get right to it so that you can jump off your couch or out of your work chair and go get some mushrooms to make this recipe STAT!

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 400°.
2. Wash then stem the mushrooms so that just the little caps are left over.
3. Take the mushroom stems, along with one whole mushroom and chop them up into tiny pieces.
3. Spray some Pam in a frying pan and drop the garlic in for about a minute or two on medium heat.
4. Add the breadcrumbs, parmesan, and parsley and let them mingle around until warm. If it looks a little dry, feel free to add some white wine.
5. Let the filling cool, and stuff those mushrooms! You can sprinkle some cheese on the top of these if you’d like
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6. Transfer to a Pam’d baking dish, spritz some Pam on top of the mushrooms and put in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until the mushrooms are tender and the stuffing is heated through and a pretty golden on top,.

These are great little party appetizer or a side dish, or awesome as a meal if you pair them with a salad and maybe a piece of crusty french bread.

I had these the other night as a side dish to homemade pizza. Great combo. What would you eat these with??

We almost ordered a pizza on Friday, but then got a text that our neighbor-pals wanted to go out. Then I missed a text (by 2 hours) that my friends were at a place with great pizza down the street. Ok, universe. I’ll make my own!

Getting/going out for pizza is fine sometimes, but once you make it at home – and I don’t mean frozen pizza- you won’t often go back. You can top your pizza with exactly what you. Want tomatoes but not a ton, fine, do it! Go get your dough and try it out.

I have tried lots of pre-made dough, and most are just fine, but the best one I’ve tried yet has been from Great Harvest. I love going there on the weekends and getting a sample of bread and picking up a dough ball. They sell both white and wheat, and the last time I went with wheat. The wheat has more fiber, is better for you and tastes awesome.

Just like most of the dishes I make, this one contained pretty much what I had on hand:

To make this pizza extra perfect I would have loved to had some mushrooms, green pepper and basil to put on top but there will always be a next time.

To start, go by whatever the instructions on your dough say. I had to let my dough sit out for 2 hours, and then get to rolling in it into my desired shape.

Flour the table + rolling pin first, then roll!

Sometimes you have to stretch it a little by hand.

I then put the dough on an Pam-sprayed circular cookie sheet to rise for 10 minutes. After that, I popped it in a 350º oven for 15 minutes as per instructions. The entire house smelled like homemade bread baking… amazing.

I then sauced the pizza using a packet of Boboli sauce- I really like these because they are individually packaged to fit on a large pizza, nothing goes to waste. On top of the sauce I first add the chopped garlic, then the spinach, and then all of the other vegetables. I only put the artichoke hearts on half as my partner in pizza eating crime Brent doesn’t enjoy those.

I like the toppings under the cheese... for no reason.

After the toppings, put the mozzarella and feta on top, and sprinkle with dried oregano. Then, place into the already very pre-heated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes. After everything looks done, I like to put my pizza under the broiler to brown the cheese a bit.

If I cook during the day, maybe I wont have to use my flash...

While that was cooking, I had to think up what I wanted to eat with this. While it is veggie-heavy, I needed something else. I really wanted to make a salad to go with this, but Brent found some carrots that only had a few days of life left. Since I hate wasting food, and the oven was already on so I decided to make some roasted carrots.

Take 4 or 5 carrots, peel them and then chop them into 1/4-1/2-inch wide by 3″ long sticks. (Or, however big you want them!) Put them on a Pam’d pan and sprinkle with salt + pepper and stick ’em in the oven at 350-400º for about 15 minutes. If you like these on the crispy side, broil them for a bit right at the end.